Skirt-protector



No. 62l,l34.

(Specimons.)

Patented Mar. 14, I899.

J. B. POYET.

SKIRT PROTECTOR.

(Application filed Oct. 20, 1898.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIQE.

JOHN BAPTISTE POYET, on PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR To THE HENSEL', COLLADAY COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

SKIRT-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 621,134, dated March 14, 1899.

Application filed October 20, 1898.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that 1, JOHN BAPTISTE Form, a citizen of France, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skirt-Protectors,which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention is a skirt-protector consisting of a fabric composed of a double head formed of warp and weft threads and a brush, one member of said head having a greater number of weft-threads than the other, whereby the protector is curved in the direction of its length.

Figure 1 represents a face view of a piece of skirt-protector embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a section thereof on line 00 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a face view of one of the heads of the protector. Fig. 4 represents aface view of a piece of fabric as a blank from which the protector is made. Fig. 5 represents what may be termed a section of the fabric in the process of manufacture, showing the course of the thread or yarn in forming the heads and brush of the article.

Similar letters and numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a piece of skirt-protector, the same consisting of the heads B and 0, formed of two fabrics, and the brush D, said heads joining each other and the brush at the place E as an integral fabric.

The head 0 is Woven loose in comparison to the head B, or, in other words, the head B is more compact or dense than the head 0, there being a greater number of wefts in the head B, so that one head draws against the other or is resisted by the other at the place E. Consequently a curve is imparted to the protector in the direction of the length, the same thus being adapted to conform to the edge of the skirt to which the protector is secured.

The two heads B and'O are employed for sewing or otherwise securing the protector to the skirt, the edge of the latter being fitted between said heads, and one head is made Serial No- 694,075. (Specimens) wider than the other in vertical direction, so that the edge of one head extends beyond the other for convenience of grasping the same or inserting the fingers between the two heads for readily-separating the latter.

In the manufacture of a fabric for the protector I form two sets of heads and float the wefts or filling-threads from one set of heads to the other, after which the floated yarn or threads are cut at the center thereof, forming two distinct protectors, each consisting of two heads and a brush, as will be apparent on reference to Fig. 4. As a method of manufacturing said fabric I employ the warp-threads 1 and 2, which are separated, as shown in Fig. 5. I also employ the warp-threads 3, 4, and 5 for a purpose to be hereinafter described, and I employ the filling thread or yarn 6, which is woven with the Warp-threads 2 and the warp-threads 5 and 3 of the left head B, and after leaving the latter threads it passes over the warp-threads 4 and then is crossed and floated to the right-hand head B, where it passes under the warp-thread 4 and is woven with the threads 3, 5, and2 of said righthand head B. When' the thread has made its shot, it returns as number 7-, being woven with the threads 2, 5, and 3 of said right-hand head B, and passes over the threads4 of said right-handhead B. Then it floats across to the left-hand head B under the thread 4 and is woven with the threads 3, 5, and 2 of said left-hand head B. The thread returns as number 8 and is shot across and woven simi lar to shot number 6 and is returned as number 9 from the right-hand head B; but after the thread 9 reaches the Warp-thread 5 of the left-hand head B it is turned to the left-hand head 0 and woven with the warp-thread 1 of said head 0, then returned to the threads 3, 4, and 5 of the left-hand head B and floated across to the right and woven with the warpthreads 3, 4, and 5 of the right-hand head B, and then turned to the right-hand head 0 and woven with the warp 1 thereof, it then being returned to the right head B, woven with the threads -3, 4, and 5 thereof, crossed and floated to the left and woven with the Warp-threads 3, 4, 5, and 2 of the left-hand head B, it then being back to the startingpoint, so that each pair of heads is distinctly form ed and bound together by the threads 5 and 3, while the crossed and floated material constitutes a body which when out through centrally forms a brush for each two-part head. Furthermore, the threads 4 are left within the brushes and serve to spread the same and render them fluffy.

It will be seen that the heads B are of greater density or compactness than the heads 0, having a greater number of wefts in them and woven more tightly than said heads 0, which are thus more open and loose fabrics than the heads B. Hence as the two heads are of different degrees of density or compactness or are unequal in their nature and are united at or about a place adjacent to the brush one head draws on the other and so imparts a curve to the fabric, the efiect of which is shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A skirt-protector consisting of a fabric composed of a double head and a brush, one head having a greatern umber of weft-threads than the other whereby the protector is curved in the direction of its length.

2. A skirt-protector consisting of a double head, and a brush, one head having a greater number of weft-threads than the other, and the two heads being of diiterent widths.

3. A fabric for a skirt-protector formed of two set of heads, each set being composed of warp and weft threads, the weft-threads being floated from one set of heads to the other, one member of each set of heads having a greater number of weft-threads than the other member of said set.

4. A fabric for a skirt-protector formed of two sets of heads, each set being composed of warp and weft threads, the weft-threads being floated from one setof heads to the other, one member of each set of heads having a greater number of Weft-threads than the other member of said set, and the members of each set of heads being of different widths.

JOHN BAPTISTE POYET.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. 0. WIEDERSHEIM. 

